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Decades ago, Mozambique’s liberation party, Frelimo, easily attracted adoring crowds. The promise of salvation from Portuguese colonizers, and a life with jobs and housing for all, was an easy sell in a southern African nation that was suffering under racist rule. But when Daniel Chapo of Frelimo becomes president on Wednesday, he will confront a […]
As someone who spent over a decade in the stock photography and creative tools industry, I’ve seen firsthand how it has evolved. The news of a potential Getty and Shutterstock merger made me think about how the stock photography industry actors found themselves at a crossroads and what future lies ahead. This is a big […]
These headlines are linked to the topic in this week’s “Crossroads” podcast, so please keep reading. Perhaps, if you are Eastern Orthodox or part of another ancient, liturgical tradition, you have noticed headlines like this, from The Telegraph: “Young, single men are leaving traditional churches. They found a more ‘masculine’ alternative.” Here’s one more, care of MSN.com: “Young […]
Thus, this feature is the kind of coverage that undercuts conservative rhetoric that the Times is an essentially “secular” institution that is hostile to people of faith. Clearly, this rite to bless an abortion clinic was portrayed as a positive, even sacred, event. This was “good” religion. Did this Times feature include any voices on the “other side” of […]
The editorial copy detailing the results has always included shots of strong commentary. I say that, based on my experiences writing newspaper columns about RNA polls since the early 1980s. The poll materials — rather than the old-school focus on specific news events — has increasingly included editorial descriptions of subjects or trends from the […]
Yes, there have been some strange moments in it all. For example, the locals really didn’t need people to send used bathing suits and prom dresses. Hold that thought. Pensacola is a tiny community in the Cane River Valley, about 10 miles from Burnsville — the county seat of Yancey County, which contains Mount Mitchell, […]
This piece is the second in a series on conservation in Northern Manitoba. Read the first part here. Chapter 4: The harvest of a whale, the hunt for a sighting of a bear Johnny Mamgark and his late cousin had pulled their freshly harvested whale up on the beach when two zodiacs arrived, filled with […]